News
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03 July 2014The Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) condemns the killing of all civilians, by all parties and calls on the International Community to condemn the criminal use of force by the Israeli Government
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29 June 2014Britain's Armed Forces day was marked by protests against militarism in Scotland
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26 June 2014Scottish Friends of Palestine has released an Open Letter to Alex Salmond urging the Scottish Government to acknowledge the position of Israel as an apartheid state.
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11 June 2014SACC is disappointed by the Scottish Government's stance over the Israel-Palestine conflict and calls for it to take steps to ensure that it is not complicit in human rights abuses by Israel
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10 June 2014"An absolutely compelling case that Tommy Sheridan's conviction for perjury was a miscarriage of justice." Tommy Sheridan is to file an application with the SCCRC seeking to overturn his conviction
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09 June 2014Humza Yousaf, Scotland's Minister for External Affairs and International Development, reaffirms the Scottish Government's condemnation of any expansion of Israel's illegal settlements in the Occupied Territories.
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05 June 2014Jim Swire, father of Lockerbie victim Flora Swire, says "we need the truth"
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05 June 2014An appeal has been dodged seeking to overturn the conviction of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie
Resisting World War 1
A new website is being launched to tell the story of the people and social movements that resisted World War 1
Resistance100
What's Wrong with the Terrorism Acts?
SACC campaigns for the repeal of the UK's Terrorism Act 2000 and all subsequent anti-terrorism legislation. These laws undermine fundamental human rights and criminalise whole communities.
The Terrorism Acts - why they are wrong
Write to the Detainees
There are many detainees in Britain held without charge or trial in a type of house arrest .
Please write to them
Justice for Palestine
Photo: None-violent vigilante
SACC is disappointed by the stance taken by the Scottish Government in relation to the Israel-Palestine conflict, as set out in a recent statement by Humza Yousaf MSP, Scotland's Minister for External Affairs and International Development. We are calling for the Scottish Government to take steps to ensure that it is not complicit in human rights abuses by Israel.
SACC statement on the Scottish Government's Palestine Policy
Background & Comment
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by SACCA new campaign has been launched to stop Sainsbury's sourcing fresh produce from companies that operate in illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine
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The SDL and the North East Infidels are planning to hold a march in Berwick upon Tweed on the 5th July 2014. Berwick upon Tweed & District Trades Council, Unite Against Fascism Berwick and RMT Berwick Branch have initiated a Unity statement in support of a counter a counter demonstration
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by Richard Haley
SDL supporters - one of them a teenage mother of a very young child - have been given custodial sentences for desecrating Edinburgh Central mosque with strips of bacon in January 2013. Richard Dawkins called the sentences “law gone mad.” But the islamophobia promoted by the SDL has led to arson attacks on mosques. -
SACC Briefing on your rights under Stop and Search laws -
by Aamer Anwar
Background to the conviction of Megrahi over the Lockerbie bombing -
An application has been lodged with the SCCRC seeking to overturn the conviction of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi for the Lockerbie bombing. What happens next?
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by Richard Haley
A May opinion poll conducted for Dundee University's Five Million Questions project prompted a headline in the Herald, published the day before the European election, that claimed: "Seven out of ten Scots 'back Ukip policy on immigration" Can that be true? And are they all racists? -
by Richard Haley
Demonstrations were help around the world on 23 May to call for the closure of Guantánamo Bay. In the year since Barack Obama launched his last initiative to close the camp, just 12 prisoners have been released. 154 men remain in illegal detention, including Shaker Aamer from London. Britain is putting no pressure at all on the US to mend its ways. Could an independent Scotland do better?
